Abstract
This study had two purposes. One was to abstract life episodes before the onset from clients' autobiographies. The second purpose was to outline their features. Targeting published autobiographies is a good way to study life episodes because there is no stress for clients and privacy issues. The researcher extracted all sentences related to life episodes before the onset from autobiographies as data. The data were coded and the 138 codes were then categorized into 13 categories. These 13 categories were divided into 6 core concepts which are: 【Pain from personal relationship】 【Distorted understanding/recognition】 【Irrelevant coping methods】 【Difficulty judging situations】 【Barriers in their daily life】 【Creating a mask and hiding behind it】. The results seem to indicate that the core concept 【Difficulty judging situations】 is the most important influence on basic human behavior and is related to the other concepts. The validity of these concepts was confirmed by using the results of other studies.
